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MARKETING MISERY
From Victorian ballads to Adele’s 21, the music business has always understood that misery sells. The question isn’t whether it exploits pain — of course it does — but when does that exploitation go too far?
Artists turn pain into art. Aud...
ART AND OWNERSHIP
The real conflict inside the music industry has never been between art and commerce. It’s between art and ownership.
Commerce understands ownership perfectly well. Art, not a bit. Art takes ideas, reframes them, and passes them around. Tho...
MORE OR LESS ON TIME
My love of great drummers is matched only by love of great pianists. But whereas pianists can hold everything together alone, drummers really only come alive when they’re fully integrated with the other players. Which is where I part compan...
CLASSICAL
Caruso started the story.
Before him, the gramophone was an amusing mechanical talking box. After him, it was big business. When his first recordings flew out of shops in 1902, executives at the Victor Talking Machine Company could barely...
THE ARROGANCE OF CONCLUSION
There was a time when a pop song knew exactly where it was going. The verse set the scene in long shot. The pre-chorus moved into mid-shot. And the chorus zoomed into close-up on the action. Someone was in love. Someone was leaving. Someone...
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